Jets defensive coordinator Kacy Rodgers medically cleared to return

Jets defensive coordinator Kacy Rodgers will re-join the team this week after getting medically cleared from recent health issues.

“Personally first, any time you get somebody that gets sick or has some type of illness, you worry about them wholeheartedly,” Todd Bowles said Monday. “The job doesn’t matter. It’s all about the person getting healthy. So, it’s a big relief for us.”

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Rodgers initially stepped away from the team a few days before the Jets’ Week 5 game against the Broncos. He made a cameo appearance at the team facility last week and watched the 42-34 win over the Colts on Sunday in the coaches’ box.

Jets Defensive Coordinator Kacy Rodgers has been medically cleared to return to the team. (Howard Simmons / New York Daily News)

“He’s been cleared and he should be ready to go,” said Bowles, who has been close friends with Rodgers for many years. “We’ll ease him in slowly. It depends on how he feels, but he’s doing a lot better.”

Bowles said “it’s too early in the week” to determine how the defensive play-calling will be handled against the Vikings this weekend, but Rodgers will indeed have a coaching role this time. Bowles had been the lone play-caller during Rodgers’ absence.